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Origins: Pompalerie Jig
| trayton | 21 Aug 09 - 03:49 AM | |
| Leadfingers | 20 Aug 09 - 06:46 PM | |
| Tradsinger | 20 Aug 09 - 05:48 PM | |
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Origins: Pompalerie Jig
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Subject: RE: Origins: Pompalerie Jig From: trayton Date: 21 Aug 09 - 03:49 AM A comment from moira (flyingcat) suggested this connection to wig, Madame De Pompadour? |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Pompalerie Jig From: Leadfingers Date: 20 Aug 09 - 06:46 PM Malcolm sang this tonight at Maidenhead ! |
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Subject: Origins: Pompalerie Jig From: Tradsinger Date: 20 Aug 09 - 05:48 PM One of Ray Driscoll's old songs was 'Pompalerie Jig, an Irish song learnt by him in Wigan. In the song, the 'Pompalerie Jig' of the British Army defeats Napoleon at Waterloo, so it seems to mean 'swagger' or 'bravado'. The only reference I have to the phrase Pompalerie Jig, thanks to Mudcatter Malcolm Austen, is a Scottish children's rhyme which goes Zeenty, teenty, feggerie fell, Pompaleerie jig. Every man who has no hair Generally wears a wig. Not much clue there then as to where the phrase comes from. Does anyone have any light to shed on the origins of the phrase? Tradsinger |
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